Belief Quote by Leonhard Euler

“Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all…

— Paolo Giordano

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

— Timothy Gowers

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

— Albert Einstein

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

— May Sarton

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll…

— Andrew Schneider

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very…

— Mark Haddon

“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether…

— Mark Haddon

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

— Gail Sheehy

“Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.”

— Mark Haddon

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

— Carl Pomerance